13 ideas
7440 | Secondary qualities are microscopic primary qualities of physical things [Armstrong] |
13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
7437 | Consciousness and experience of qualities are not the same [Armstrong] |
13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
7434 | Behaviourism is false, but mind is definable as the cause of behaviour [Armstrong] |
7436 | The manifestations of a disposition need never actually exist [Armstrong] |
7429 | Causal Functionalism says mental states are apt for producing behaviour [Armstrong] |
7438 | A causal theory of mentality would be improved by a teleological element [Armstrong] |
7431 | The identity of mental states with physical properties is contingent, because the laws of nature are contingent [Armstrong] |
7432 | One mental role might be filled by a variety of physical types [Armstrong] |
13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |